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local color

noun

  1. distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities of a place or period as represented in literature or drama, or as observed in reality.
  2. Fine Arts. the natural color of a particular object as it appears in normal light.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of local color1

First recorded in 1715–25
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Example Sentences

Paul Psychiatrists per capita: 44 Stress: 51 Eccentricity: 15 Drinking: 30 (tie) Local Color: At the Minneapolis-St.

The latter came to rough it in local color, the former to dream of a better world.

It was Harwood's habit to spend a day in the towns he visited, gathering local color and collecting anecdotal matter.

Full of local color and rich in quaint phraseology and suggestion.

A third paper may speak of an interesting theme which may be called the local color of songs.

As to style, no one cared for that, not even the author; as to ideas—zero; as to local color—non est.

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